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Hooper (Margaret) Hollywood High School Graduation Scrapbook
SPC.2024.010
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Contributing Institution:
California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
Title: Margaret Hooper Hollywood High School Graduation Scrapbook
Identifier/Call Number: SPC.2024.010
Physical Description:
1 box
(one scrapbook)
Date (inclusive): 1918-January 23, 1923
Language of Material:
English
, Latin
.
Container: 1
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Margaret Hooper Hollywood High School Graduation Scrapbook (1918-January 23, 1923) is a memory book with 189 pages that contains
hand written letters, news clippings about Hollywood High School, photographs of the Class of 1922, theater programs, name
cards, a button pin, tickets, playbills, gradution event invitations, and other ephemeral material attached to the pages of
a scrapbook called "Graduation Memories". Also included are event ticket stubs, attendance cards, poems, and play and recital
programs including one featuring Hooper in "A Rose O'Plymouth Town". It also contains a copy of
Pantages and
Graumans: Million Dollar Theater and Rialto Theater Magazine, Vol. 5, Issue No. 8 from February 1922.
Margaret Hooper was born on July 9, 1905 in Kansas. Her parents were named Walter Clyde Hooper and Mabel Apsley. She attended
Hollywood High School in 1922 as a senior, when she resided in Los Angeles, California. She would spend most of her documented
time around theater. She was featured in one of the plays at Hollywood High School called "A Rose O' Plymouth Town" and actively
watched many other plays such as "Class Day", "Blow Your Own Horn", "The Pirates of Penzance", and more. She would also attend
many musical events such as Mishel Piastro's violin concert, Allen McQuhae's singing concert, and many symphany orchestra
concerts. Other interests of Margaret Hooper included poetry and religion. In July 1924, she married Carl Christian Herman
Fromme with whom she would have two children: David William Fromme and Virginia Louis Fromme. At the age of 76, Margaret Hooper
passed away.
Some of Hollywood Highschool Alumnai included the following famous actors of the time: Joel McCrea, June Marlowe, Carole Lombard,
John Huston, Lon Chaney Jr, and more.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Scrapbooks
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Theater programs
Theater
High school students
Hollywood High School (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)